South Africa vs Australia match ups.

Venue: Wellington regional stadium, wellington
Referee: Bryce Lawrence

Matchups.
Gurthro Steenkamp vs Ben Alexander
John Smit vs Stephen Moore
Jannie du Plessis vs Sekope Kepu
Danie roussouw vs Dan Vickerman
Victor Matfield vs James Horwill
Heinrich Brussow vs David Pocock
Schalk Burger vs Rocky Elsom
Pierre Spies vs Radike Samo
Fourie du Preez vs Will Genia
Morne Steyn vs Quade Cooper
Bryan Habana vs James O’Connor
Jean de Villiers vs Pat McCabe
Jaque Fourie vs Adam Ashley-Cooper
JP Pietersen vs Digby Ioane
Patrick Lambie vs Curtly Beale

SA Bench
Bismarck du Plessis, CJ v d Linde, Willem Alberts, Francois Louw, Francois Hougaard, Butch James, Gio Aplon

OZ bench
James Slipper, Nathan Sharpe, Ben McMalman, Luke Burgess, Berrick Barnes, Anthony Faingaa.


She's gonna be a tight one.

Its rugby top trumps!

All SA except

Pocock - just
Genia - Du P off form
Digby - obviously

SA bench wins

Going to be close and also awesome

SA will win by 8

DIvvy on Bakkies this morning - He doesn’t say a lot, but when he speaks, everyone listens, and that is valuable to the team. His presence alone is massive, because no one messes with Bakkies. And when it gets tough, they will look for a Bakkies, and he will not be there.”

He will, though, be there in spirit on Sunday.

Good. Bakkies there. In spirit.
Good.

All really depends which oz turns up.
The 2/10 or the 12/10.
First 20 minutes will be the fastest of this cup.

you can tell both teams are concentrating on the game ahead, PDV has come out and said anything silly, none of the Aussies backs have wowed use with their wisdom and its all very diplomatic so far..

Jeebus another match I can't call!

As clever and experienced as the Boks are I'm edging towards Australia here.

I think they are still stung by the Ireland defeat and will be terrified at the prospect of heading home at the QF stage after coming into the competition with such high expectations. There form bar the Ireland game has been frightening.

The boks are so strong and comfortable in these KO competitions though
and have building for this for so long. Could lightening strike twice and the Australians be outmuscled?

I am not confident about this one, Frans Steyn will be missed in that midfield, Jean de villiers just doesn't seem great at the moment and the wings will see no ball with him there.

Boks by 3-6 points.